Waco Day 537

Five more victims of the Great Twin Peaks Massacre Coverup filed suit Wednesday against former Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco police detective Manuel Chavez, McLennan County, Texas District Attorney Abelino “Abel” Reyna and John Doe, “an employee of the Texas Department of Public Safety that is” as of Wednesday “unnamed.”

Twenty-two civil rights lawsuits for false arrest and imprisonment have now been filed against Stroman, Chavez, Reyna and Doe.

The new complainants are Walter and Ester Weaver, Michael and Sandra Lynch and Julie Perkins. Complainants

Ester Weaver, a member of the women’s only Queens of Sheeba Motorcycle Club was arrested with her husband Walter, a civilian employee of Fort Hood who belonged to no motorcycle club. Weaver later told the Killeen Daily Herald that both were “clueless about why they were put in jail.” Walter told the paper that when he asked a McLennan County corrections officer why he was in jail he was told to “Shut up.”

Mike and Sandra Lynch were both members of the family oriented Los Pirados Motorcycle Club. Lynch rented space at the Twin Peaks restaurant to host a regional meeting of the Texas Confederation of Clubs and Independents, an advocacy and lobbying group that acted on behalf of motorcyclists. Sandra Lynch was well known in Waco for her charitable work. Two days after her arrest and imprisonment, Sandra Lynch accepted a proclamation from the Waco City Council “in absentia.”

All five complainants are represented by Dallas attorney Don Tittle. All 22 lawsuits and any additional suits will be adjudicated by Federal District Judge Sam Sparks in Austin.

One hundred seventy-seven witnesses to a gunfight and brawl that left nine people dead and 18 injured were arrested, charged with “engaging in organized criminal activity” and held on $1 million bond each.

“Despite possessing video from numerous angles showing the complete lack of involvement of most of those arrested and hours and hours of interviews with the arrested individuals in which no evidence of a conspiracy was uncovered to support their ‘theory’ of pre-planned violence, Defendants willfully, intentionally, and recklessly charged 177 individuals with the identical first degree felony of Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity with the Intent to Commit or Conspire to Commit Murder, Capital Murder, or Aggravated Assault.

“To clarify, the decision to arrest and charge Plaintiffs and the other individuals with crimes despite video evidence, and statements from hundreds of witnesses, that directly contradict the existence of probable cause, or any reasonable belief thereof, can only be characterized as willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Based on the very specific information known by Defendants at the time their decision was made to arrest, including CLEAR and UNAMBIGUOUS video evidence directly at odds with Defendants’ theory of a mass criminal enterprise engaging in organized crime, it is impossible to believe Defendants’ conduct and decisions were anything other than willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Defendants’ decision to ignore contrary and exculpatory evidence in favor of a theory unsupported by the facts or the law was consciously made and therefore willful, intentional, and/or reckless. Investigative reports and DPS witness summaries provide specific proof of the facts alleged herein.”

The gunfight, in which at least four people were killed by police, was quickly sensationalized by the world press as a real life episode of the cable television soap opera Sons of Anarchy. CNN was still pursuing the same fatuous angle about what had happened in Waco a year later in a “Special Report” hosted by Ed Lavandera and titled “Biker Brawl: Inside the Texas Shootout.”

In the days after the arrests, police spokesman W. Patrick Swanton made numerous misleading and inaccurate statements about what had happened. The national and world press gobbled up the official nonsense. That gullibility contributed to the ruination of numerous victims of the official excess that followed the bloody brawl.

“Perhaps the most misleading characterization of the events was made days after the incident by Defendant Reyna when he implied that those arrested were guilty because ‘if they’re victims, then they shouldn’t have any problem coming to law enforcement and cooperating… and, at least in the first round of interviews, we ain’t getting that.’ This is blatantly false. A review of investigators’ records documenting the interviews that were conducted with the detained bikers clearly establishes that the vast majority, including Plaintiffs, were completely cooperative during interviews, and voluntarily submitted to questioning and requests for forensics (volunteering DNA samples and gunshot residue testing) from law enforcement. Defendant Reyna knew of these facts at the time he made the above described public statement.”

So called bad-ass drug dealing bikers and their b*tches are still whining about ass burn? What a bunch of pathetic moaners.

I generally support law enforcement as a rule but everyone knows there are some bad apples in most police departments. It just goes with the nature of the business but those like you, if you're a LEO or were one, are just the kind I would never support. Your kind is the enemy of all America and Americans. It really would be better if you just moved to whatever fascist country you chose and relieve us of the attitude and car-sized chip on your shoulder.

It's blatantly obvious from the videos that the cops didn't mow down the bikers as first thought but it's also blatantly obvious arresting all those people on the same charge just for being there was akin to using a crane and wrecking ball to swat a fly. Total overkill and it's done a lot of damage and continues to because anyone in that situation looking for a job has to admit they have been charged even though they will all be found innocent - someday. I truly hope WACO is dead broke and penniless from this fiasco so maybe, just maybe, the people there will get some REAL law enforcement and not what they have or had that day. All those bikers wrongfully arrested that day deserve a hefty sum of money; enough for a 40 yo to retire comfortably for life.

I’ve watched this from beginning. It was a total screw up in everything that happened before, during, & after.

I applaud the DPS who shot the shooters. Not sure about collateral damage. That is for jury.

BUT the Feds stirred this mess up and they are hiding behind scenes. It will not be put in the open until Obozo is gone.

State of TX will loose many of the cases on trial, same with Wac(k)o, and Renya personally.

Were there bad guys there. Well, duuhh the Banditos have always had bad guys in their ranks.

Many of the dead tested positive for drugs. Call it what it is.

But almost 200 people arrested on conspiracy charges and 1 million dollar bond set by JP? Totally Insane Crap.

I don’t care what the boot lickers here think about it, this is simply handled totally wrong. But again this is Waco. It has reputation to uphold, smug insanity.

“You omitted the part about hundreds of bike gangsters involved on a gang fight at a family plaza endangering innocent women and children eating lunch after church.”

Let the justice system really work for everyone. Not this travesty that passes for same in Waco. Waco is a Shit city, and it has been for years. Anyone ( and that includes cops) who indescriminently shoots in a public place should be prosecuted, but it’s clear as day that what Whacko is doing isn’t anywhere near a just prosecution of those few who are really guilty.

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